Not exact matches
The
genes responsible for making psilocybin appear to have been exchanged
in an environment with a lot of fungus - eating insects, namely animal
manure.
«Antibiotics use affects the abundance of resistant bacteria
in soil: The use of animal
manure increases the soil content of antibiotic - resistant
genes.»
«The rising level of integrons after 1990
in manured soil could indicate that through our efforts to reduce antibiotic resistance, we have unintentionally increased resistance
gene exchange and more study is needed on the use of animal
manure,» says Prof Graham from Newcastle University.
The answer is that it forms the platform for illuminating the interaction between the use of animal
manure and the appearance of
genes for antibiotic resistance
in soil.
Prior to 1960, the team found low levels of the
genes in both the
manured soil and that treated with inorganic fertiliser.
However, by the mid 1970's, levels of selected β - lactam
genes started to increase
in the
manured soils, with levels peaking
in the mid 1980's.
Analysis of historic soil archives dating back to 1923 has revealed a clear parallel between the appearance of antibiotic resistance
in medicine and similar antibiotic resistant
genes detected over time
in agricultural soils treated with animal
manure.
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin
in the Bronx - Oddball romance with
Gene Hackman as a Dublin peddler of horse
manure who falls for American student Margot Kidder.
Gene Logsdon, the author of Holy Shit: Managing
Manure To Save Mankind tried to figure it out
in the Atlantic.